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Employees of a private research university Vanderbilt in the US city of Nashville commissioned by NASA was a prototype of a telescope designed for “transmission” has been developed asteroids and the search in their bowels of precious metals, as well as other minerals. A kind of “x-ray” moving in cosmos of celestial bodies will be realized thanks to the galactic gamma radiation.
Ceyvan Stassun, one of the creators of the unusual telescope, tells that so far “look” inside asteroids were only possible with low-speed spectrometers permits that required months of observation and considerable expenses, their accuracy was very far from ideal. New a device developed by American engineers can find minerals on asteroids quickly, for a reasonable price, and with high precision.
A unique gamma telescope will allow employees of the American space agency explore subsurface layers of asteroids and other small celestial bodies using cosmic radiation from interstellar medium. This will allow NASA to discover objects rich in gold, silver, platinum and other valuable elements. Not less, it’s not yet clear how the Americans plan to use these finds – information that NASA is about to begin mining on mineral asteroids appears in the world media every year however the United States still doesn’t show even trying to do this.
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The principle of operation of a unique telescope
Scientists explain that every object in the solar system is constantly “bombarded” by special charged particles having speed, close to the light. Faced with atoms on the surface of heaven bodies, they give rise to flows of other charged particles penetrating into bowels of asteroids and crashes into ore atoms. This in turn generates a stream of gamma rays, which can be caught by a special a telescope. Having analyzed the spectrum of gamma rays, specialists will able to effectively determine what treasures that one stores in itself or another object moving in space.
The new American gamma telescope has some significant limitations. For example, this device equipped with ultra-pure germanium photosensitive matrices, fast it overheats and needs an expensive cooling system. However, scientists can soon solve this problem. It is assumed that germanium will be replaced by special crystals consisting of iodine, europium and strontium. They have same high sensitivity to gamma rays, however overheat to an incomparably less degree.
NASA Telescope
